The pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is rapidly becoming a
tropical disease. Sub-Saharan Africa alone currently accounts for∼ 60% of the estimated> …

The pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is rapidly becoming a
tropical disease. Sub-Saharan Africa alone currently accounts for approximately 60% of the …

During the twenty-year AIDS epidemic, almost twenty-two million people worldwide have
died of the disease and an estimated 36 million are living with the HIV virus, which develops …

PIP: AIDS cases were predominantly reported from America, Europe, and Africa in the early
stages of the AIDS pandemic, with only few cases reported in Asia. Accordingly, people in …

At the end of 1999, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS estimated that about
50 million people worldwide, 14 million of whom had already died, had been infected with …

Routine surveillance of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and AIDS has been
established over the past decade in many countries around the world. HIV estimates derived …

The HIV pandemic continues to evolve, in both magnitude and diversity. In this paper, we
briefly review the global epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, reflecting on the differences by region …

The large numbers of AIDS cases which are now being reported are due to infections which
began to be spread silently and extensively in the 1970s before the causative agent, HIV …

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a global human tragedy, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The
pandemic affects people in the primer of their lives moving from at-risk populations to …

AIDS and HIV infection are now endemic in many parts of Africa. The infection is mainly
transmitted by heterosexual activity, as illustrated by a 1: 1 female to male case ratio and …